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Great wines for a great cause! Adelaide-based company, Wine Direct, has banded together this morning with Babich Vineyards, Tim Adams Wines and George Street Wines to produce a special offer proudly supporting the NZ Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal. Wine Direct will contribute

Fuse West 2011 16th February 2011 Fuse is Australia’s longest running music industry conference and showcase festival, with over 5,000 people participating in over 30 venues. It’s where artists, industry and music fans unite for three days of networking, business building and celebrat

JamFactory is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Peter Vaughan and Jane Lomax-Smith to its Board of Directors. Peter Vaughan is CEO of Business SA and has steered the former Chamber of Commerce through a period of major change to its present enviable position as the l

AbaF , the Australian Business Arts Foundation, has come on board to support the AWEA event, through a partnership with Casablabla and Mojo Inc. AbaF is a national organisation which connects the arts, business and donors. What is the SA PREMIERS’ ARTS PARTNERSHIP FUND? The SA P

The fourth annual West End Music Festival, presented by the Adelaide West End Association, was launched last night at The IVC Room. Preceding an acoustic performance by premier artists The Huckleberry Swedes, Immediate Past President of the AWEA and candidate for Adelaide City Council

Lord Mayor Michael Harbison has expressed concern for the welfare of Christchurch’s residents after Saturday’s earthquake. Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city, has had a sister city relationship with Adelaide since 1972. “I have contacted Bob Parker, Mayor of

Music SA and Coopers Brewery were presented with the SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) Award at the state Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) Awards held in Adelaide at the Dunstan Playhouse Thursday night, for the Coopers Alive music project. They beat tough competition

Opening Night | A walking tour of our local art galleries, boutiques and eateries… To celebrate the opening of Fringe Benefits‘ new art gallery, Trigger, the East Hindley neighbourhood is keeping its doors open late on Wed 1 Sep from 5pm – 7pm. Pick up a map from the

Adelaide Fringe 2010 amassed 1,085,551 attendances across all events resulting in a total associated expenditure of $35.1 million. It brought 8,900 new visitors to South Australia with expenditure estimated at $4.7m to the State and add to this the estimated $5.7m of expenditure retai

TAFE SA Adelaide College of the Arts (AC Arts) will unleash your inner artist with a bevy of creative short courses from making your own jewellery to introduction to painting and costume design. So if you are like AC Arts Creative Director, Christie Anthoney and have caught SALA Festi

Reproduced courtesy of City Messenger 12 August 2010 Emily Charrison EMERGING designers will be given a leg up in the fickle fashion industry with the launch of Adelaide’s first “Design Room” – a spot where they can showcase their labels for peppercorn rent. Run out

Higher Ground Inc and Community Arts Network, with assistance from ArtsSA and the support of ACC, is uniting the West End through the creation of the West End Mural which will be situated on the eastern boundary, second story of No. 9 – 15 Light Square and will replace the redun

For nearly twenty years the dB Magazine office has been located upstairs on the west end of Hindley Street, an ideal location to see and comment upon that which keeps the city ticking. Publishing each and every fortnight (and weekly at Festival time), we’re about to hit our 500t

20 July 2010 The AWEA is preparing a submission to the government on these papers but need the input from our members to do so. could you please forward your comments to Helen Page, AWEA coordinator by Friday 27th of August enabling us to present a unified West End submission by

Venue registrations for the 2011 Adelaide Fringe have now opened. We welcome registrations from all types of venues ranging from Hotels to Clubs, Office and Retail, to vacant and unused buildings. The demand for various venues each year from registered artists is huge and venue

The Annual General Meeting of the Adelaide West End Association will be held on 18th August 2010 at Tapas on Hindley, 147 Hindley Street, Adelaide. Commencing at 6pm, light refreshments will be provided. If you would like to be a part of the AWEA Executive, nomination forms (whi

The mural is a representation of the West End as it was, is and could be! Although the mural is representative of the West End as a precinct, it aims to focus and celebrate the creative energy and output of the locality, and harness our collective artistic and creative spirits. The le

Call for action on on Adelaide’s West End revival Sheradyn Holderhead – The Advertiser May 31, 2010 ARTIST-DRIVEN shops, more eateries, opening up laneways and keeping streets clean are key elements of a community-driven plan to immediately start revitalising the cit

EMPTY West End buildings will soon open their doors to aspiring artists, entrepreneurs and community groups, in a venture set to revive unloved city streets. Renew Adelaide, a new volunteer-run community project, will begin moving tenants into an old factory and two shopfronts w